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An efficient image encryption scheme using lookup table-based confusion and diffusion

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This paper presents a solution to satisfy the increasing requirement of real-time secure image transmission over public networks. The main advantage of the proposed cryptosystem is high efficiency. The confusion and diffusion operations are both performed based on a lookup table. Therefore, the time-consuming floating point arithmetic in chaotic map iteration and quantization procedures of traditional chaos-based image cipher can be avoided. Besides, this cryptosystem possesses satisfactory resistance to noise perturbation and loss of cipher data, which are inevitable and unpredictable in real-world channels. The channel disturbance and the deliberate damage from the opponents are both tolerated. The recovered image from the damaged cipher data has satisfactory visual perception. Simulations prove the advantages of the proposed scheme, which render it a good candidate for real-time secure image applications.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61271350, 61374178, 61202085).

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  1. School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, China

    Jun-xin Chen & Chong Fu

  2. Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, China

    Zhi-liang Zhu & Li-bo Zhang

  3. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Yushu Zhang

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Chen, Jx., Zhu, Zl., Fu, C. et al. An efficient image encryption scheme using lookup table-based confusion and diffusion. Nonlinear Dyn 81, 1151–1166 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-015-2057-6

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